Text:Strengthen for Service, Lord
Translator (from Syriac):Charles W. Humphreys
Translator (from Syriac):Percy Dearmer
Tune:ACH GOTT UND HERR
Adapter & Harmonizer:Jo­hann S. Bach
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6373. Strengthen for Service, Lord

1. Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands
That holy things have taken;
Let ears that now have heard thy songs
To clamor never waken.

2. Lord, may the tongues which Holy sang
Keep free from all deceiving;
The eyes which saw Thy love be bright
Thy blessèd hope perceiving.

3. The feet that tread Thy holy courts
From light do Thou not banish;
The bodies by Thy body fed
With Thy new life replenish.

Text Information
First Line: Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands
Title: Strengthen for Service, Lord
Translator (from Syriac): Charles W. Humphreys
Translator (from Syriac): Percy Dearmer
Meter: 87.87
Language: English
Source: Translation in The English Hymnal (London: Oxford University Press, 1906), number 329
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: The words were inspired by a prayer said by a deacon during the Lord's Supper in the Liturgy of Malabar, a 5th Century Nestorian rite of the Mar Thomas Christians on the southern coast of India.
Tune Information
Name: ACH GOTT UND HERR
Adapter & Harmonizer: Jo­hann S. Bach
Meter: 87.87
Incipit: 17655 67121 76716
Key: A Major
Source: As Hymn­o­dus Sa­cer, ed­it­ed by Christ­i­an­us Gall­er (Leip­zig, Ger­ma­ny: 1625)
Copyright: Public Domain



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